37.9 Crore Twitter Accounts Hacked

Another security breach came into the light. Last month Linkedin, Myspace suffered from leaked accounts, and now Twitter became the target.

Tessa88, a hacker from Russia revealed that he managed to collect a cache of 379 million Twitter accounts (37.9 Crore) mail ids, usernames, and passwords.

Leakedsource site which provides reliable information on “leaked accounts” for various online platforms confirmed the leak, but it only reports that the number of compromised accounts is only 33 million.

The Russian hacker is selling the Twitter user account database for ten bitcoins, and that is equal to Rs. 3,86,745. Twitter is checking their databases with the latest security breach.